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In Class with Carr

S E130: Twitter Question (Volume 10) : Brown Skin Girl

In Class with Carr

Knarrative

Africana Studies, Society & Culture, Education, History, Karen Hunter, Empowerment, Greg Carr

4.9972 Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2019

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Karen answers a question from Twitter about colorism and explores what if Cyntoia Brown was a brown-skinned girl. Would there have been as much of an outcry over her sentencing and would she be free today?

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0:00.0

This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub. So today I'm going to take a break from talking about race. Psych. Of course I'm not going to take a break from talking about race.

0:21.0

You know what? I will take a break from talking about race when people stop

0:25.4

being racist and when the system of white nationalism is destroyed. I will then stop talking about

0:32.0

race and talk about anything under the sun because I have a lot of things that I would love to talk about.

0:37.0

But I'm going to keep talking about this because today is Ask Me Anything Sunday.

0:40.0

And I got a question from one of our listeners, one of our listeners on Twitter.

0:44.0

His name is George and you can ask me any question that you want to as well.

0:48.0

And on a Sunday I may pick a question or two and answer it.

0:52.0

And you can do that by going to Twitter,

0:53.8

following me at Karen Hunter with the hashtag podcast

0:57.9

so I can search.

0:58.6

So what I do is I go into search that hashtag podcast at Karen Hunter and then I find your question as I found

1:05.2

George Smith at George Smith 6837 says I would love for you to have a podcast on colorism in the black diaspora,

1:15.0

how it showed up during the days of slavery,

1:17.5

how it impacted respectability politics,

1:20.0

and how people that are ambiguous navigate where they have trouble being accepted in black spaces.

1:27.0

Now, this is George a very deep question that would require so much more than just this space and maybe

1:36.1

you know I'll sprinkle it in throughout my time doing this podcast not today but in the future

1:41.9

but I'm going to tap on a few things so on my

1:45.8

radio show on serious XM a caller called up because I talked about the release

1:50.1

of Cynthia Brown. Cynthia Brown is the young girl who was being uh, forced into sex work at 14 prostitution

2:01.1

and she picked up or John picked her up and I'm not sure what happened in that room

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